At the 'Light In Winter'festival held in Melbourne, Australia this past June, the spanish group Luzinterruptuspresented an instalation, the structure of which occupied a fairly large area, the largest to date from this group.

This year's theme was 'reading', so the artists were asked to take their project 'Literature vs. Traffic', a piece they had previously installed in New York and expand it during a month.

With more than 10,000 books discarded by public libraries and lighted by Guerrilla Lighting along with other friends and volunteers, these pictures tell a better story of the month long work, execution and feedback for the project.

"We want literature to seize the streets and become the conqueror of public spaces, freely offering to those who walk by a space free of traffic which for a few hours of the night will succumb to the modest power of the written word.

Thus, an urban space conventionally reserved for speed, pollution and noise, for a few hours will become a place of peacefulness, relaxation and coexistence. Illuminated by a soft, diffuse light which makes us feel comfortable, in a pleasant environment, in spite of the chaos which surrounds us.

The books, of diverse topics will remain, during the entire intervention, at the disposal of anyone who wants to take them, signifying that the installation will recycle itself and be of the duration which the users want it to linger before disappearing."

"The end of this piece? The same as the first time, a river of books overflowed physical space for pedestrians to use, installed in the space allocated to cars, stealing a precious space from the high traffic of the area, as a symbolic gesture in which literature takes over the streets and becomes a conqueror of public space, offering citizens a space (not as big as we would have liked) in which traffic retires to give way to the modest power of the written word."